[bestbits] The elephant in the room?

[parminder]

Dear Becky/ All

Good to see a substantive discussion begin on this important topic.

Hope the list can sustain such a discussion to come up with a
transparency and accountability framework that is best for the IG civil
society.

The four principles in the cited document look good to me -
transparency, participation, evaluation, and complaint and response
mechanisms.

Look forward to a good discussion on this list, and BB's steering
committee's response to the proposal.

I am also seeking a discussion on the JNC list, and will also request a
formal response from the JNC.

Best, parminder



On Sunday 24 May 2015 09:14 PM, Becky Lentz wrote:
> Dear BB and JNC colleagues,
>
> Reading BB list posts over the past two days re the tension/debate about
> accountability feels toxic/uncivil (at least to this reader anyway),
> unless that recurring conversation can actually Œgo somewhere¹ beyond
> periodic disagreements about what is/isn¹t civil society and what
> transparency and representation ought to mean, or doesn't mean, to various
> participants. What is remarkable, imho, is how BB has managed to find ways
> to work together when it is strategically useful to do so despite all of
> the obstacles to collaboration that clearly exist: the elephant in the
> room. Yet, while that doesn¹t seem problematic to some, it does to others
> if they are seeking to change the very values/principles that drive the
> work itself. 
>
> For what it¹s worth (knowing that those with longer histories doing this
> kind of work most likely have encountered such tools as well as critiques
> of them), here are some links that might be considered by BB¹s executive
> committee, and for that matter, the JNC¹s leaders, if either is
> potentially interested in taking its own model of collaboration to another
> level in the IG/digital rights field and beyond. In fact, the IG/digital
> rights field could take on actually providing other fields with a model of
> how to navigate these tensions, if addressing Œthe elephant in the room¹
> were also considered an equally important Œpart of the work¹ alongside the
> very necessary research/advocacy/organizing work already going on.
>
> The tools in this resource uphold four accountability principles.
> Implemented at various key institutional and research processes, they aim
> to improve accountability relations between organisations and their
> stakeholders: http://www.oneworldtrust.org/apro/about and
> http://www.oneworldtrust.org/apro/about/using_the_tools.
>
> This may also be of interest 'Does it matter Who Funds You?¹
> http://www.oneworldtrust.org/blog/?p=579
>
> Becky Lentz
> McGill University
>
>
>
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